America is choosing: who is Joe Biden and why did the Democratic Party choose him?

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., saw the world at a very turbulent time, at the height of World War II. On November 20, 1942, J. Biden was born into a Catholic family with a population similar to Vilnius in Scranton, Pennsylvania. As the oldest child in the family, he had a sister and two brothers. The family was not particularly wealthy, so Biden spent his childhood in the home of his mother Catherine’s parents. The Biden family themselves were descendants of English, French, and Irish immigrants. From an early age, Biden was plagued by the fight against stuttering, which, thanks to great efforts, the presidential candidate almost managed to overcome.

The tragedy did not deter politics

In school, Biden played on football and basketball teams, and also represented the freshman football team at the University of Delaware in Newark. In 1965, Biden received a bachelor of arts degree and was soon supplemented by two master’s degrees in history and political science.

In 1966, Biden married his first wife, Neil Hunter, with whom he later had three children. 1968 he received a law degree from Syracuse University and, although he was called up to serve in the Vietnam War during his studies, the services prevented the young man’s asthma. Early in his career, Biden has alluded to viewing himself as a Republican, but he never officially joined the party due to overwhelming antipathy towards then-President Richard Nixon. In 1969, a frustrated attorney, Biden was elected to the Delaware district council as a registered Democrat.

His great political career began in 1972, when Biden was elected to the United States Congress as a senator from Delaware. But just 5 weeks after the election, his family was rocked by tragedy: a car accident killed his wife Neilia and injured their children Beau and Hunter in the incident. As a result of the incident, the politician considered resigning as a senator, but was persuaded to stay and has not retired from American political life since 1973. Upon taking the oath at age 30, he was the sixth-youngest US senator in American history. His second wife, Jill Tracy Jacobs, married in 1975 and a couple of years later they would marry in New York. Jill and Joe are Catholic, they have a daughter, Ashley.

Will the fifth generation not lie?

Early in his career, Biden actively raised consumer and environmental concerns, but always emphasized a willingness to work with fellow Republicans. This characteristic of his has not changed to this day, and his tendency to seek common ground with his opponents often enrages more left party comrades.

One of the most notable achievements of Biden’s career was the 1994 Violent Crimes Control and Execution Act, signed by Congress and passed by Congress, signed by then-Democratic President Bill Clinton. The law has drastically toughened the interpretation of some criminal activities and, at least from today’s perspective, left-wing parties are seen as highly controversial as having contributed directly to escalating racial problems in US law enforcement. Biden’s reputation in the 1990s for some blacks as “super predators” doesn’t help either.

Biden is also overwhelmed by his opposition to abandoning black and white school segregation in U.S. schools in the 1970s, bringing racial minority children specifically to white schools to reduce exclusion. Social. But despite these activities, Biden has strong support for blacks in 2020, to which his work in the administration of President Barack Obama has contributed significantly.

Biden has already tried to run for president of the United States four times: in 1984, 1988, 2008 and 2012. All these times he failed to win the Democratic Party nomination in the primaries. However, this curse was broken this year when he managed to defeat his former main rival on the left, Bernie Sanders.

When Biden became a candidate for the Democratic Party, one of the main Republican arguments was neutralized: that Democrats are overwhelmed by left-wing radicals who will immediately lead to a revolution. With moderate and centrist views, Biden hardly looks like a radical, and his election of Vice President Kamala Harris is also far from reminiscent of the radical left, as the Trump campaign is trying to portray. On the contrary, she worked for many years as Attorney General in San Francisco, and later became Attorney General for the entire state of California, distinguishing herself as a strict representative of law enforcement. As a result, Trump’s attacks, supposedly his opponents will be weak and humble in the face of crime, unlikely to convince much of the United States.

Unlike Clinton, Biden is not very fond of stickers. “This was due to the choice of the Democratic Party to nominate Mr. Biden as a candidate. They knew what to expect from Trump, he knew he would use the same tactics that had worked in the past, but the nominee was a moderately moderate politician, who in his Most supported centrist views throughout his career. One whose personal family history is inspiring enough and the disasters he has experienced in life and the loss of family members. “It is quite difficult for such a person to stick to such extreme labels and indeed D. Trump is slipping in this direction and has not put such a unique label on Biden, and the Democrats probably treat it as one of their victories, “the political scientist told Delfi., Director. from the Linas Kojala Center for Eastern European Studies.

Polls show dominance

It seems that the fifth generation can really be a success. Nate Silver’s website, fivethirtyeight.com, which has had extremely accurate election prediction trees in the past, shows Biden a clear advantage in national poll averages: 51.6 percent, down from 43.2 percent. D. Trumpui.

The portal realclearpolitics.com, which summarizes all national polls, shows 7.1 percent. advantage over Biden, although in the major fluctuating states the advantage is only 3.8 percent.

“It just came to our attention then. There were polls in which Donald Trump looked better. This is probably the current change affected by the pandemic situation. In the first place, already more than 200 thousand.” It is probable that the death of the Americans and the resulting stagnation of the United States economy seriously hamper Donald Trump’s ability to send a message to his constituents that the country has turned in the right direction during his four years in office and that many Americans are now better off than never, “said Kojala.

“It should be remembered that Biden was even endorsed by the widow of former Republican presidential candidate John McCain in Arizona, where Biden has a real chance to step up and defeat. It is clear that Trump’s chances after impeachment were enormous, now diminished due to the leadership and control of the coronavirus, when Trump initially denied the virus, said it was ineffective, said it would pass and then promoted unproven treatments with hydroxychloroquine. Then another thing, the main thing on the part of the action, is that the federal government did not coordinate The spread of the pandemic virus did not provide enough help to the states and naturally the lack of a unified center caused the virus to spread uncontrollably in the republics, as in Florida, for example, where the numbers are increasing out of control. And we have seen that in many other countries, where heads of state who do not control the virus, voters often punish them, ”said Mykolas Katkus, former Delfi’s public relations expert.

So far, not just the polls, but also the financial capacity on the Democratic side. Extreme hostility toward the current president has led to unprecedented activism among Democratic financial donors.

In Red Carolina, for example, the well-known Republican candidate and Trump ally, Lindsey Graham, is hot on the heels of the Senate elections and, in some polls, Democrat Jamie Harrison even leads the record for winning financial support across the board. the country in the third quarter. Harrison raised $ 87 million in three months. Dollars, which has not been heard before even in much larger states, and is almost equal to all the financial resources available to the Trump campaign.

“J. Throughout his life, Biden essentially represented the voter Trump drew from Democrats to Republicans. All the while representing a simple, generally speaking, of the smallest neighborhoods. In other words, it’s not that elite, left-wing liberal from Massachusetts or Vermont like B. Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. He’s such a classic, moderate, somewhat conservative, and less radical candidate in the field of social liberalism, not like, say, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. And another thing, Americans know him very well, he has seen him a lot and he has always been one of the most popular American politicians. Even before becoming vice president, he constantly tried to fight for the presidency, he is a decent politician, Americans know him very well. The Lithuanian equivalent could be, say, Eugenijus Gentvilas, or perhaps more Česlovas Juršėnas, because he is known to older politicians all the time, everyone knows him and even his opponents respect him, and he is basically a decent, predictable politician with clear convictions. . “I may not be the most inspiring politician in the world, but it is very difficult for a politician to impose terrible things,” Katkus said.

Katkus also highlighted the enormous financial resources given to Biden by his former rival, businessman Michael Bloomberg, who promised € 100 million in advertising against Donald Trump in Florida alone. Such large money flooded the advertising market and the competitor has no choice but to buy very expensive advertising to defend himself. In this way, resources are diverted from other states and the resources of the rival are depleted. Bloomberg also promised to invest heavily in the hitherto strong red state of Texas, which would further deplete Trump’s revival in other volatile states.